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"The monkey plays the drums. My brother plays the drums. The monkey is my brother." ;)
Yes, I've eaten horse meat too and I believe I'm human too. This sentence will be edited in the new tree.
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1263
Ive eaten horse and its delicuous. But more importantly, there seems to be a mistake here. It says "ο άνθρωπος" but accepts "a human" as an answer. Im on mobile and i had the pick words excersize, and 'the' wasnt an option
Aside from the fact that the statement is incorrect because as is evident in your post and others here people actually do eat horsemeat there is the problem of the meaning of, *Ο άνθρωπος" which means "*a human being, human, a person..." in general.
It does not mean "the human" as in a specific person but as a general meaning which is why a is required and for that reason there is no "the" option.
1263
I'm sorry, but what? I am a bit confused. Is άνθρωπος not a masculine noun? Because in masculine nouns O means 'the'. Or is there some reason why its an exception?
It's a bit like how the Wikipedia article on "lion" starts "The lion is a species ..." -- there, "the" does not refer to a particular lion, but to the idea of lions in general.
Similarly here, ο άνθρωπος could mean either "the human" (referring to a particular one) or to "humans; a (typical) human" in general.
1263
Thanks, this clarifies it. Although considering that these sentences always lack the context of a larger text, you may want to consider getting rid of it.
Wouldn't the sentence 'The human does not eat horse meat' sound strange to you? Grammatically correct but weird? One would really have to come up with a contrived context to make sense of it, something like aliens trying to feed a captured human some horse meat. This is why the above Greek sentence is immediately understood to imply a general statment to a Greek speaker, even without any context.
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'άλογο' is the singular of horse, so it is not always wrong (if that is what you are asking)